Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

The bank...is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!

Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

It's difficult to excel at something you don't truly enjoy.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.